Buster, Thanks a lot for your reply! I am using iPlanet LDAP. Could you send me the code snippets which retrieving the images? Could you also send me sample code of your GetImage servlet?
Thanks a lot RD On 10/22/02 7:36 PM, "Nimmons, Buster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as the first question it depends on the LDAP directory. We use Oracle > Internet Directory which has a great Java API for accessing the Directory. > > > as far as displaying an image once it's recieved I wrote a servlet called > GetImage which connects to the LDAP Directory and retrieves the image then > simply sets the return type of the output stream to "image/jpg" and pipes > output of the image retrieval to the servlets output stream. Any HTML or jsp > page which needs an image from the Directory uses the following code > > <img src="/getImage?fileName=SomeName"> thus instead of the image src making > a direct link to the image it calls the servlet which gets the image and > outputs it in the correct format. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Dong [mailto:rdong@;CAIT.ORG] > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to retrieve jpeg image file from LDAP? > > > I am working on a project which retrieves jpeg image files and heave them > displayed in the browser. > > These jpeg photos are stored as base64 in LDAP server. > I am using JSP for this project. > > My questions are > > 1. How do I retrieve images from LDAP using jsp? I know how to retrieve any > data of string type. > 2. How do I decode them back into binary and display them? > > Any examples? > > > Thanks a lot > > RD > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST > DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
